Where Portal excelled in trimming away filler to provide an extremely focused gaming experience, The Ball stops frustratingly short of the mark. With a disheartening lack of variety plaguing the first two-thirds of the game, it's an unnecessarily laborious task to unearth its finer moments. As an Unreal Tournament mod, The Ball is certainly one of the finest. As a retail product, however, poor pacing keeps it from stacking up against the competition.
In this weeks Fantastic Neighborhood, Fred covers the Beta release of Electronic Super Joy, New Levels in Rayman jungle run, and expanded Ouya coverage including reviews of Deep Dungeons of Doom, You Don't know Jack, and One Tap Hero.
Fred then hosts a new Let's Play segment, but he may be full of hot air.
Gameclub this week is The Ball.
Epic Games have teamed with seven developers to give gamers the first ever “Unreal Indie Bundle,” which offers seven Unreal Engine 3-powered games for $19.99 (USD), £14.99 (GBP) and €17.99 (EUR) on Steam.
Read on to see the titles available and more.
Mike from D Pad D Bags Says:
The Ball from Teotl Studios here is a first person puzzle game that takes inspiration from Portal. The player is an archaeologist exploring what is assumed to be Mexico who falls into a giant ditch. It just so happens that your colleagues can’t rescue you anytime soon, so they suggest you do some exploring.
